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The 14 Fantasy Series Every Bookworm Must Read

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The 14 Fantasy Series Every Bookworm Must Read

Hooray, it's World Book Day! To honor the special occasion, we recruited POPSUGAR editors to help compile the ultimate list of geeky reads. Ahead, we're highlighting the best must-read epic fantasy series, with all the elements of the genre: a large cast of characters, a magical alternative world, and complex, integrated plotlines. And if science fiction is more your thing, bookmark our guide to the greatest sci-fi reads too.

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16 weeks

You forgot Frank Herbert. You should also include Terry Brooks.

26 weeks

In Tolkien's works, the main characters become mature, they get way too old, they die and become pieces of history, even some of the elves. The Harry Potter stories are similar, and so also Dune. The stories of Elric, like the stories of Conan or of Faffhrd and the Grey Mouser, do not feature protagonists with a life history of childhood through old and more feeble age. (At least not those I've seen. I could be wrong about Elric, but I think I'm right about Conan and the two Nehwon rogues.) The distinction may be more a function of publication history than of quality: Tolkien's work was conceived as an encyclopedic mythology from which long narratives might be extracted, and as he said of LOTR, "This tale grew in the telling" until it became the trilogy. Elric had his beginnings while there were still "pulps" printing self-contained stories, as did (earlier) Conan and Leiber's adventurers. A story three huge volumes long has got to come from a writer with a day job and a sense of what happens over a real-time day or year.

29 weeks

How in the name of GAWD is the Elric of Melnibone series not here?!

36 weeks

No Dark Tower series? I know it's not pure fantasy, but a large percentage of it sure is.